Monday, September 23, 2013

This picture shows the young team of Bodega de Pinoso in the area of Alicante, who supply us with very good wine in the Bag in Box system.

An
old technique gets a 21st
century makeover. Thousands of years ago wine was stored in
goat skin bags, now
with the bag-in-box (BiB) system uses materials that arehygienic,
food grade,
acid-proof, airtight
andwatertight.

Thebagismade
from a filmcomposite material
(aluminum,
polyethylene, Ethyl-Vinyl-Alcohol)
with a tap to serve the
wine. For ease of serving, it is packaged in a sturdy box and
has apre-punchedhole for the serving
tap.

Granted,
some wineconnoisseurs
may look down on BiB
packaging. Of course
the quality of BiBwines is not going to
be the same asa
PremierGrand
Cru. And we understand that Chateau Lafite is not planning to supply
their wines using this system in the near future.

But
BiB organic winesat£5.00 perlitrearejustas good as
a normal wine bottle
in the£7-10
price range.

There
are many good reasonsfor buyingorganic winein
BiB:

they
are better value for money than the same bottled wine because the
packaging, handling and transport costs are lower

they
are more
environmentally friendly;
the transport weightis lower, so one needs
less fuel to transport them

you
can help yourself to just one glass of organic wine from the BiB,
without the remaining wine losing any freshness

you
don't have to worry about leftover wine in a bottle getting oxidized
over a few days

once
opened, organic wine left in the BiB
lasts for up to 8 weeks if you keep it cool

organic
BiB winetakes
up much less space than wine bottlesin your home